>> standalone business function The key word here is Flexibility. Probably in essence, there are two big groups of web programming languages: java-based (CFML etc.) vs. Microsoft-based (asp, asp.NET etc.).
And if my understanding is correct, any asp code would run under IIS web server without anything else; As for asp.NET, I don't know. Now, for java-based code for web use, like CFML, the usual route is to use Adobe's CFML engine. But you brought up an interesting option of using free CFML-compatible engine, however, I have some concerns and before I get into that, let me say, here the business case is, try to distribute a business function built in CF to your potential customers or whoever else (hence, the few requirements of installing this and that the better, naturally the more dependency the less reliability...). Now, what if there's some free and light J2EE component, that be easily plugged into any web server, then, what? maybe, any compiled cfml code (java bytecode) can run under such a web server environement, a probable yes? And what's this option's key benefits if it's available? a) performance probably would be good because of less overhead (not implying cfml-compatible engines are not); b) customers are more likely receptive to it? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305009 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
